Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.